"You can't please everyone" is one thing, "you can't please the same people no matter what you do" is an other. People have been crying against the continuation of this war, now that it gets a meaningfuly finale people still cry against it. Thing is, there are some steps which cannot be skipped. You can blame whoever you want that it took this long to get here.
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(11-26-2018, 10:03 AM)Antonio Wrote: As for Council, they were nowhere as strong as now iirc, I don't remember much about them.
We were always this strong, strong enough to hold a whole system against all odds for three decades. It was GRN getting weaker as they poured more homeland defenses into Sirius to compensate their losses there, allowing us to break out from Champagne into Picardy and start taking things literally.